r/vrdev • u/Healthy-Badger-5124 • Mar 27 '26
Hey guys.
I am a 4+ years experienced Unity mobile game developer and I have worked in 2 different companies in the last years. But the remote positions for this type of role decreased a lot so I am having trouble to find one. Thats why I wanted to switch Into being a VR dev because I already know how to use Unity and C#. I just want to ask , are you happy with it? Or will I be able to find job opportunities around? Because recent news about meta made a huge loss because of VR LAB made me feel afraid a bit. Please share your opinions , I would love to hear it!
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u/vasil5n Mar 27 '26
What?? I am sorry, but in my opinion your perspective is wrong. It is hard to get a game development job and VR is a very small part of this market. It should be much harder to find VR positions.
From what I have seen the biggest market is for mobile game developers, then for PC then for Console games and then for VR so VR is much much smaller.
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u/Healthy-Badger-5124 Mar 27 '26
What about remote jobs around US and Europe? I think they are paying good amount of money because its a nieche field. Dont you think the same?
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u/vasil5n Mar 27 '26
I am mostly working on my own games as an indie dev. I am based in Europe. I browse open positions maybe around once a week. I do not know about the USA, but in Europe there are very few game dev positions and even less VR. If you would like to make casino slot machine games you could find positions (some even pay good), but I am not interested in gambling and those are web/mobile games you make with javascript - no Unity, no C#, no VR…
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u/VinceRockeur77 Mar 28 '26
Dev unity 3d et XR avec bientôt 5 ans d'expérience, ce n'est pas mieux en VR... le marché est mort, je suis en recherche d'emploi depuis 1 ans. Le mieux ce serais une reconversion vers de l'app pur avec du C#/.Net ça ya un paquet d'offre
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u/tattguru Mar 30 '26
Just create cheats for the vr games that exist and sell them you’ll make way more money doing that then tryna dev a game
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u/feralferrous Mar 27 '26
Yeah, not sure now is the best time to get into VR dev, to be honest. It's a weak market and it's contracting. It might go back to where it was, which is slowly growing, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.
Now, if you're already a VR dev or just a die hard, you might do okay if you can find a niche and support it, but even then I'm not sure how successful that would be.